Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Featuring The Company Barrington Hinds, Jada Jenai, Shane Larson, s. lumbert, Danielle Marshall, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Jacoby Pruitt, Nayaa Opong, Philip Strom and Huiwang Zhang in Curriculum II Conceived and Directed by Bill T. Jones Choreography by Bill T. Jones with Janet Wong and the Company Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel* Video Design by Janet Wong Sound Design by David van Tieghem* Installation and Costume Design by Liz Prince Additional sound scape work by Shane Larson *Denotes Member of the United Scenic Arts Union (USA) Text adapted from: Louis Chude-Sokei The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics Mark O’Connell ‘Uncanny Planet’ New York Review of Books William Shakespeare The Tempest The Bible Genesis 1:28-31 Bill T. Jones Co-Founder & Artistic Director Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director
Musical excerpts from:
Jonathan King: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
Bessie Jones: Oh Death
Morton Feldman: Only Nina Simone: Human Touch Daniel Bernard Roumain: Estella, J & M
Ivory Coast: Chant D’homme Accompagné D’Une Cloche (Funeral Chant)
Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Beulah Land Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Buzzard Lope
Trevor Morris: Mano e Mano
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold: Prelude
Programming & Production Staff
Kyle Maude, Producing Director Serena Wong, Lighting Supervisor Megan Dechaine, Production Stage Manager Shay Watson, Sound Supervisor Zaire Baptiste, Technical Director
New York Live Arts dedicates our performances of Curriculum II to Jedediah Wheeler of Peak Performances at Montclair State University for his tireless support of the work of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.
FUNDING
Curriculum II is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts with commissioning support from PEAK Performances at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ and the American Dance Festival. Curriculum II premiered with PEAK Performances in June 2022. Created with support from the Made in Wickenburg Residency Program at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts in Wickenburg, Arizona with funding from the R.H. Johnson Foundation and The Welk Foundation.
The creation of new work by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is made possible in part by the company’s Partners in Creation: Anonymous (2), Anne Delaney, Zoe Eskin, Eleanor Friedman, Ruth & Stephen Hendel, Michael P.N.A. Hormel in Loving Memory of Jim Hormel, Suzanne Karpas, Ellen Poss, Jane Bovingdon Semel, in memory of Linda G. Shapiro, Slobodan Randjelović & Jon Stryker.
Special thanks to Tommy McCall.
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LIVE ARTERY: IN THE THEATER JAN 10-13, 730PM JAN 14, 2PM Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company Curriculum II JAN 15, 2PM JAN 16, 730PM Shamel Pitts | TRIBE BLACK HOLE: Trilogy And Triathlon JAN 15, 830PM JAN 16, 2PM Joanna Kotze ‘lectric Eye LIVE ARTERY: IN THE STUDIO JAN 13, 9PM JAN 14, 1PM Faye Driscoll Weathering JAN 14, 6PM Shamel Pitts | TRIBE Touch of RED excerpt JAN 14, 8PM MX Oops [NONFATAL_ERROR] UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL JAN 15, 1PM Lacina Coulibaly Until the lion tells the story, there is no glory JAN 15, 3PM jumatatu m. poe transitions into terrestrial JAN 15, 6PM Vanessa Anspaugh mourning after mornings excerpt JAN 15, 8PM Holland Andrews unSurrendered JAN 16, 1PM Kyle Marshall Choreography Onyx excerpt JAN 16, 3PM Pearlyn Lii Reverb, A Genetic Opera JAN 16, 6PM Netta Yerushalmy MOVEMENT excerpt ARTIST SALON: IN THE LOBBY JAN 15, 1130AM Milka Djordjevich, Miguel Gutierrez, Emily Johnson, Abby Z & The New Utility
COMPANY HISTORY
Over the past 40 years the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company has shaped the evolution of contemporary dance through the creation and performance of over 140 works. Founded as a multicultural dance company in 1982, the company was born of an 11-year artistic collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. Today, the company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. The company has performed its ever-enlarging repertoire worldwide in over 200 cities in 40 countries on every major continent. In 2011, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company merged with Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts of which Bill T. Jones is the Artistic Director and Janet Wong is the Associate Artistic Director. The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is widely varied in its subject matter, visual imagery and stylistic approach to movement, voice and stagecraft and includes musically driven works as well as works using a variety of texts. Some of its most celebrated creations are evening length works including Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land (1990, Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music); Still/Here (1994, Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France); We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor (1996, Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA); You Walk? (2000, European Capital of Culture 2000, Bologna, Italy); Blind Date (2006, Peak Performances at Montclair State University); Chapel/Chapter (2006, Harlem Stage Gatehouse); Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray (2009, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park, IL); Another Evening: Venice/Arsenale (2010, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy); Story/Time (2012, Peak Performances); A Rite (2013, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill); Deep Blue Sea (2021, Park Avenue Armory).
BIOGRAPHIES
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/ Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) is recipient of the 2022 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for Black No More; 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; 2013 National Medal of Arts; 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed Fela!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance
Treasure.” Bill has been nominated for the 2022 Tony Awards for his work on Paradise Square. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating.
ARNIE ZANE (Co-Founder/ Choreographer) (1948-1988) was a native New Yorker born in the Bronx and educated at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. In 1971, Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones began their long collaboration in choreography and in 1973 formed the American Dance Asylum in Binghamton with Lois Welk. Mr. Zane’s first recognition in the arts came as a photographer when he received a Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Fellowship in 1973. Mr. Zane was the recipient of a second CAPS Fellowship in 1981 for choreography, as well as two
Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1983 and 1984). In 1980, Mr. Zane was co-recipient, with Bill T. Jones, of the German Critics Award for his work, Blauvelt Mountain. Rotary Action, a duet with Mr. Jones, was filmed for television, co-produced by WGBH-TV Boston and Channel 4 in London.
PERFORMERS
BARRINGTON HINDS (performer) is from West Palm Beach, Florida. He began his training at the School of Ballet Florida under the direction of Marie Hale. Hinds holds a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase College and has worked professionally with VERB Ballets, Northwest Professional Dance Project, and the national tour of Twyla Tharp’s Broadway show, Movin’ Out. In 2011 Hinds was honored as a finalist for the Clive Barnes Award for young talent in dance. He has worked with leading choreographers including Laurie Stallings, Edgar Zendejas, Sarah Slipper, Helen Pickett, Thaddeus Davis, and Cherylyn Lavagnino to name a few. Hinds has also danced with the Stephen Petronio Company and has freelanced in commercial, TV, and print work. In addition Hinds is also a choreographer and teacher. His work has been shown at Purchase College, Dixon Place, Warwick
Summer Festival, Arts On Site, and The Tank. Barrington has been a Performer with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company since 2017. You can follow him @bar_hinds and his website barringtonhinds.com
JADA JENAI (performer & company manager) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked professionally with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Helen Simoneau, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, and Wyckoff Collective. Jenai earned a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, studying under Jonathan Ridel, Kyle Abraham, Kevin Wynn, and Dylan Crossman, and Jean Freebury (Merce Cunningham Change of Address). She also studied at Western Australia Academy for Performing Arts and Springboard Danse Montreal, working with Jonathan Alsberry and Shamel Pitts. Jenai attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and is a freelance model. Jada joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2021 and became company manager in 2022.
SHANE LARSON (performer) was raised in Minnesota, where he received his early training at the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. He graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the
Arts, with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He also studied at SEAD in Austria. Since living in New York City, he’s branched out to collaborate with punk musicians, film makers, improvisational music ensembles, and site-specific visual artists. He is also a multimedia video artist who makes collage-based work about memory. Shane joined the Company in 2015.
S. LUMBERT (performer) is a transgender dance artist currently based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). s. is committed to a practice of navigating how to be in zis body as a person who experiences chronic illness, and is interested in cultivating accessible spaces in dance. s. collaborates in live performance and in film with Marie Lloyd Paspe and musician Treya Lam, rehearses with and performs for Huiwang Zhang in collaboration with zimself and Nayaa Opong, and has been in process with and performed for Marion Spencer. s. has been working with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company since 2018.
Alliance, and City Gate Dance Theater. In 2019, she graduated summa cum laude from the Ailey/ Fordham B.F.A. program, studying dance & Pre-Health for Physical Therapy. During her time at Ailey/ Fordham, Ms. Marshall had the opportunity to perform works by her colleagues and notable choreographers such as Adam Barruch, Amy Hall Garner, and Maxine Steinman. Marshall is also a certified Horton instructor. Danielle joined the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company in 2021.
DANIELLE MARSHALL (performer) is a native of Atlanta, GA. She received her early dance training from DeKalb School of the Arts, Phusion Performing Arts
MARIE LLOYD PASPE (performer) is originally from Bellingham, MA and Mississauga, Canada, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Marie received her BFA from the Ailey/Fordham Program in 2016, studying abroad in Israel with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in 2015 and Springboard Danse Montreal in 2017. She toured with Carolyn Dorfman Dance and worked with choreographers Peter Chu, Renee Jaworski, and Rami Be’er. Her choreography, vocal work, and movement direction for stage and film were presented in the Philippines, Berlin, Israel, and across the U.S. Marie’s ongoing practices are rooted in FilipinxAmerican diasporic work and somatic-based healing. Paspe joined the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 2018.
JACOBY PRUITT (performer) began his dance training in Miami, FL where he attended New World School of the Arts. He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of Dance and is a recipient of the Martha Hill Dance Fund’s “Young Professional Award”. He has worked professionally with Ailey II, Company XIV, Sean Curran Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet among various other freelance projects. His tv/film credits include Good Morning America, Comedy Central’s Alternatino, and the In the Heights film. Jacoby joined the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company in 2021.
PHILIP STROM (guest performer) is a movement artist from Washington State. While pursing his BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he danced in work by Crystal Pite, Sonya Tayeh, Ronald K. Brown, and Paul Taylor. Since graduating he has performed with Andrea Ward, Bennyroyce Dance, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Gabrielle Johnson + Artists, inDance (Hari Krishnan), & RyderDance. He participated in Spingboard Danse Montreal’s 2018 project, performing in original works by Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk, and Emese Nagy of MA•ZE. Philip is an Artistic Associate of Bennyroyce Royon,
having staged his work at Rutgers University and assisted him in processes & teaching at The Juilliard School, Ballet Hispánico, Joffrey Ballet School, Peridance Center, and Gibney Dance. As a creator Philip maintains an ongoing choreographic research process, “Silhouette Series”, since 2019. Philip is excited to be joining the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company as a Guest Artist in 2023.
NAYAA OPONG (performer) is from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She began her dance training at The Bowman School of Dance and later continued at Eleone Dance Unlimited. Nayaa chose to further her studies at Mason Gross School of the ArtsRutgers University, where she earned a B.F.A. in Dance and was able to spend a semester at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Since graduating in May 2019, she performs with Hysterica Jazz Dance and has begun working with the BIRDHOUSE artist collective. Nayaa joined the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company in 2019.
HUIWANG ZHANG (performer) has been a member of the Company since 2017. He was nominated an “outstanding performer” by the Bessies
(Zhang imbues commitment with focus, and connects time together through sensitized and accumulated gestures) for his performance of “Our Labyrinth” directed by Lee Mingwei and Bill T. Jones at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He earned his MFA from the University of Utah under the mentorship of Stephen Koester. 张慧望,江⻄九江⼈,
COLLABORATOR & GUEST ARTISTS
LIZ PRINCE (Installation and Costume Designer) designs costumes for dance, theater and film and has had the great pleasure of designing for Bill T. Jones since 1991. Her work has been exhibited at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Rockland Center for the Arts and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. She received a 1990 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) and a 2008 Charles Flint Kellogg Arts and Letters Award from Bard College. She teaches costume design at SUNY Purchase College Manhattanville College, and Sarah Lawrence College.
DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Music and Sound Designer) Selected
Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, Burn This, Doubt, Heisenberg, The Gin Game, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Reckless, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, After Miss Julie, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, An Enemy of the People, The Good Body. Selected Off-Broadway: Wit, Incognito, Plenty, Sabina, Henry V, Corpus Christi, The Piano Lesson, The Grey Zone. Dance: Twyla Tharp, STREB, Doug Varone, Pilobolus, Boston Ballet, Michael Moschen. Film/ TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, Me To Play, Penn & Teller. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Arthur Russell, Pink Floyd, Nona Hendryx, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Robert Ashley, Peter Gordon. Solo Performances: Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, BAM, the Knitting Factory, Town Hall, Jacob’s Pillow, Whitney Museum, Venice Biennale, David Letterman. Albums: “Thrown for a Loop,” “Strange Cargo,” “Safety in Numbers,” “These Things Happen.” vantieghem.com
ROBERT WIERZEL (Lighting Designer) has worked with artists in theatre, dance, new music, opera and museums, on
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stages throughout the country and abroad. He has worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones and his company since 1985. Projects include Blind Date, Another Evening: I Bow Down, Still/Here, You Walk?, Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, How To Walk An Elephant, and We Set Out Early… Visibility Was Poor. Other works with Bill T. Jones include projects at the Guthrie Theatre, Lyon Opera Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Boston Ballet, Boston Lyric Opera, the Welsh dance company Diversions, and London’s Contemporary Dance Trust. Robert has also worked with choreographers Trisha Brown, Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Larry Goldhuber, Heidi Latsky, Sean Curran, Molissa Fenley, Susan Marshall, Margo Sappington, Alonzo King and JoAnn Fregalette-Jansen. Additional credits include national and international opera companies, Broadway, and regional theater. Mr. Wierzel is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Yale School of Drama.
JANET WONG (Associate Artistic Director and Projection Designer) was born in Hong Kong and trained in Hong Kong and London. Upon graduation she joined the
Berlin Ballet where she first met Bill when he was invited to choreograph on the company. In 1993, she moved to New York to pursue other interests. Ms. Wong became Rehearsal Director of the Company in 1996, Associate Artistic Director in August 2006 and Associate Artistic Director of New York Live Arts in 2016.
COMPANY
ZAIRE BAPTISTE (Technical Director) is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative, producing content in the music video, narrative, branded, and experiential markets. Zaire’s work in film and television, have led to a 2018 Telly award, a 2019 Davy Award, and 2021 Dot Com and W3 awards. As a creative, Zaire is 1/3rd of the founders of The Spot for Art, a Brooklyn art gallery that uses Art Therapy and color theory in its work. With 10+ years of technical director experience Zaire has led projects for the likes of Norman Lear, the international foundry, and numerous off broadway productions. @zairebaptiste @thespotforart
MEGAN DECHAINE (Production Stage Manager) is a New York City based stage manager originally from Washington State.
She graduated from Western Washington University with a B.A. in Theatre. She has worked with the American Dance Festival, Sleep No More, Mimi Garrard Dance, Jody Oberfelder Projects, The Anthropologists, Sara Juli, Time Lapse Dance, Dance Lab NY, Eric Taylor Dance, University of the Arts Winter and Spring Dance Series, Bellingham Repertory Dance, Kuntz and Company, Bellingham Theatre Works, and iDiOM Theater. Megan joined the Company in 2022.
KYLE MAUDE (Producing Director) graduated from Drake University with a B.F.A. in Theatre. She has worked with Ballet Tech/ Feld Ballets New York, The Royal Ballet School of London, BuglisiForeman Dance, and Lesbian Pulp-o-Rama! Ms. Maude joined the Company in 2003 and served as the Company’s Production Stage Manager for ten years, then Director of Producing and Touring for three years before becoming Producing Director for New York Live Arts in 2016.
SHAY WHATSON (Sound Supervisor) Leshay “Shay” Watson, Recording and live sound engineer since 2012. Graduated from the Institute of Audio Research in 2015,
since graduation she has had the privilege to work at some amazing venues like Apollo Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Shed, Barclay Center, PlayStation Theater, Lehman College. She has also worked with many popular artists and on TV shows like Showtime at the Apollo, Kelly Clarkson, 2021 Heisman, Wildin Out, Law and Order SVU, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and many more.
SERENA WONG (Lighting Supervisor) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Her designs have been seen at New York Live Arts, Danspace, Irondale Arts Center, and Jacob’s Pillow. She is the resident lighting designer for New York Theatre Ballet and enjoys beekeeping and bread baking.
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Board of Directors
Stephen Hendel Co-Chair
Richard H. Levy Co-Chair
Helen Haje Vice Chair
Slobodan RandjeloviĆ Vice Chair
Alan Marks
Treasurer Bill T. Jones
Artistic Director Ex-Officio Kim Cullen
Chief Executive Officer Ex-Officio Bjorn Amelan
Willard Ahdritz
Sarah Arison
Aimee Meredith Cox
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Charla Jones
Colleen Keegan
Darnell L. Moore
Amy Newman
Randy Polumbo
Ellen M. Poss Matthew Putman
Jane Bovingdon Semel Ruby Shang Catharine R. Stimpson
Board Emeritus
Derek Brown
Terence Dougherty Eleanor Friedman Advisory Council
Margaret Doyle, Chair Alberta Arthurs
Beverly D’Anne Lisa Frigand
Jenette Kahn Susan Micari Alton Murray Lorraine Gallard Lois Greenfield Martha Sherman
STAFF & BOARD New York Live Arts @NewYorkLiveArts @nylivearts Artistic Leadership
T. Jones Artistic Director Janet Wong Associate Artistic Director Programming, Producing & Engagement
Maude Producing Director Hannah Emerson Producer Jessica Prince Producing Associate Production
Pinnock Production Manager
Dechaine Production Stage Manager Leo Janks Lighting Manager
Roberts Interim Technical Director
Navigato Interim Assistant Production Manager Creative Director Bjorn G. Amelan Community Engagement & Education Bianca Bailey Community Engagement & Education Manager Communications Tyler Ashley Director of Communications Augustus Cook Digital Marketing Manager Hannah Seiden Communications Manager Taylor Adams Front of House Assistant Liliana Dirks-Goodman Graphic Designer Pentagram Pro-Bono Branding Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Faye Driscoll
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